using one of the so-called 'right' time zones that take into account
leap seconds, which causes the tests to fail (as reported by
Daniel Black in bug report #1745964).
are not, due mainly to the lack of support for XML character entities
(e.g. & => & ). This will make it easier to validate test files using
tools like xmllint, as well as edit and view them using XML tools.
no fixed port numbers in use anymore. Starting now, the default ports the
servers use are 8990 - 8993. There's no option to modify these yet, but
changing the $base option in the top of the runtests.pl script.
multiple DNS lookups can run simultaneously faster. The downside is that
resolving the same host name now can be made at once from multiple threads,
but the upside is that threads now don't alwys have to wait for the others'
resolves. Test case 506 updated accordingly.
